Business contract for the restoration of Donbas for the next 100 years - Alexander Kovalenko.

Today, many media outlets are quoting an article from El Pais, which states that Donald Trump sent a certain "message" to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky...

According to the publication, Donald Trump suggested that the Ukrainian president consider a ceasefire and renounce the occupied territories.

What led the publication to this conclusion? The reasoning is quite simple. The profound and highly professional analysts at El Pais decided that Donald Trump, while speaking on the green lawns of a golf club in Florida, stated, verbatim: "It's nice to say they want their land back, but the cities are mostly destroyed. Look at some of these cities, and there isn’t a single intact building left. So when you say 'return the country'... What is there to return? It’s a 110-year reconstruction," meant that it is pointless to fight for these territories as they have been reduced to rubble...

It would be appropriate to remind Donald Trump of a piece of U.S. history, specifically the burning of the White House by British troops during the Burning of Washington in 1814, during the War of 1812, but I won’t, even though the future U.S. president will govern from a restored Oval Office, not the original one. This is largely because the forebears of democracy did not abandon their course of independence and freedom, rebuilding from the ashes what the ideals of the nation invested in.

However, even here there are nuances and hidden pitfalls that should be considered not just bluntly, but with subtlety.

On one hand, journalists, the "most respected" profession after lawyers and... well, prostitution... Ahem... The oldest profession? Well, it doesn’t matter.

So, on one hand, everything was clear to the journalists in a straightforward manner, but the analysts, not just this whole scenario, can explain to you piece by piece, even atom by atom, what Donald Trump meant. That’s why journalists seek the opinions of experts, not the opinions of journalists, right?

You may now engage in battles of broken lances under my post, but Donald Trump was rather prosaically hinting that Ukraine will prevail in the war against Russia with the help of the U.S. if American construction companies are given priority for the next century in the reconstruction of the destroyed cities.

A business contract for the reconstruction of Donbas for 100... written out, for those who didn’t understand – ONE HUNDRED years ahead. What’s wrong with that? Do you want the Donbas to be developed by some Udmurts or architects from Texas? Subtle hints that, unfortunately, not everyone sees, are precisely what the businessman, the 47th president of the United States, is sending right now.